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Thursday, December 21st, 1939 Sam Bucovetsky At this time, the most glorious holiday season of the whole vyear, we extend our sincere felicitations to our many friends and customers in the Porcupine Camp ABDerryp Cbristmas Limited THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO (Continued from previous page.) ings are of fine type. Five banks suggest many Scotsmen here. Timmins is the distributing centre for a large area, having two large grocery wholesales, oil distributors, machinery dealers, meat packers, etc. We #% #% t o o ue n es i o t <trmet i South Porcupine, with its population crowding 6,000, has most of the advantages and benefits enjoyed by Timmins â€" schools, churches, hospital, stores, homes. Perhaps, they are on A little smaller scale, but the quality,is there. In one respect, South Porâ€" cupine is a step ahead of Timmins, having an artificial ice hockey arena now. schumacher, with a population of well over 6,000, in true neighborly Christmas spirit allows Timmins to enjoy some of it special advantages, such as the Lions‘ swimming pool, the Badâ€" minton Club, the notable recreation grounds and the magnificient arena for housing all sports, an arena that has no equal in Enâ€" tario outside of the city of Toronto. a With the opening up of new mines in the eastern part of the camp, old Golden City is staging a notable comeback and promises to more than regain its original prestige and importance. The three big towns of the Porcupineâ€"Timmins, Schumacher and South Porcupine â€" and the original town Oof Porcupine (Golden City) have the wherewithal for a merry Christmas. The payroll of the camp is around a million and a half dollars a month. There are fifteen producing mines in the Porcupine toâ€" day, with the best promise of several more. In some recent months the production of Porcupine Mines exceeded four milâ€" lion dollars each thirty days. Materially, the Porcupine camp is in excellent condition for a merry Christmas. And hearts are right for it, as well. At this moment when the calls of Christmas are so urgent the three leading objectives of the camp in general are to exceed the objectives set for the Red Cross, raise money enough for the fight against tuberculosis to be carried on with redoubled vigor, and to so answer the call of the service clubs that ‘there will be goods enough, money enough, that every needy famâ€" ily may enjoy a merry Christmas. Christmas in the Porcupine should be a happy one for everyone. When the Puritans ruled in England plum puddings were forâ€" biddtbn with all other Christmas celebrations, and suspected houses were rudely ransacked for any trace of this timeâ€" honored Christmas delicacy. The people rose up in rebellion against such extreme measures, soldiers were sent to subdue them, and there was a "world of skullcracking" on Christmas afternoon. Probably nothing helped the cause of the banished Stuarts. more than this illâ€"advised attempt to abolish Christmas, and the "plum pudding" riots that ensued. STIRRING THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING First and foremost among Christmas preparations comes the making of the plum pudding, and from time immemorable the traditional ceremony of "stirring the plum pudding" has been faithfully observed, writes a correspondent in the Birmingham Weekly Post. ~ Ourvgrandmothers always insisted that it should be stirred from east to west, the way the sun travels, because the Three Kings came from the East on the morning of the first Christmas. They used a wooden spoon in memory of the wooden manger, to stir a pudding with a metal spoon was considered unlucky. The Eve of Epiphany, or Twelfth Nigh (January 6th), is to the children of Rome what Christmas is to us. Many a Merry Christmas in the Porcupine Camp WHEN PLUM PUDDINGS WERE FORBIDDEN “‘s PR (Author Unknown) Old man, I send a hearty Christmas greeting, I‘m mighty glad to send it to you, too, And tell ‘bout the many kinds of gladness That ought to come to good old scouts like you. But since restricted space forbids the telling, Just let your old imagination shine, And tell yourself, each time you‘re extra jollyâ€" "He wished it on me, that old And so, old friends, and new ones, too, The best of Christmases to you all. Let the children come, Gaily carolling, Two by two together, First to greet their King. â€"Dorothy Griesback Let the snow fall, Covering the street With a down carpet, For His baby feet. Let the bells chime Through the quiet dark To their gladsome paean All the world will hark. Let the stars gleam With a friendy light; Welcoming the Saviour, Who is born this night All little young things for His sake who died, Who was a Little Thing at Christmastide. . . (By Margaret Murray) God bless the little things, this Christmastide. All the little wild things That live outside. Little cold robins and rabbits in the snow, Give them good faring and a warim place to go. friend of «CAROL mine!" Christmas Section